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Vivian Awards
The time for the Vivian Awards is here! Monday, January 8, 2018 in the historic and beautiful Holeman Lounge. We are excited to honor the team members who exemplify the spirit of former president Vivian Vahlberg – whose record of outstanding service to the National Press Club inspired these awards. So, please join us as we celebrate and thank these fine volunteers for their service and magnificent leadership in 2017. See you there!
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Burning to Tell You: Critical Conversations with Risk-Taking Artists
Join the NPC Events Team, The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (The Lab) at Georgetown University and The Artist Partner Program at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland for Burning to Tell You: Critical Conversations with Risk-Taking Artists at the National Press Club on Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m in the Ballroom. Burning to Tell You brings together artists, activists, journalists, and thinkers from around the world whose work embodies the urgency of free expression in contexts of censorship, repression, and violence.…
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NPC Members Meet-Up at the Library of Congress: Semi-Annual Main Reading Room Open House
NPC Members Meet-Up at the Library of Congress: Semi-Annual Main Reading Room Open House - Monday, October 9, (2 groups) 1:30 & 2 p.m. in Alcove 8 inside the Main Reading Room. Reference Librarians will meet with Press Club members to provide a briefing on the Main Reading Room including how to conduct research, describe the features of the art and architecture and also historical facts about the Library. Each group can accommodate a maximum of 25 people. Additional information and activities about the semi-annual reading room: Twice each year, the Library of Congress opens its…
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Together In DC - Women Storytellers Event at the Warner Theater
Together Live is a national touring event — headlined by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Luvvie Ajayi, and emceed by Jennifer Rudolph Walsh This is a wonderful opportunity to bring women journalists together to support other women telling their stories! The Events Committee wants you to join us for "Cocktails and Conversations" at the Reliable Source. Then, we will walk to the Warner Theater to see amazing authors and storytellers, such as Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Luvvie Ajayi and emceed by William Morris literary agent Jennifer Rudolph Walsh at 7:30pm. Sign up with the NPC and receive a…
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Conversations with Women who Lead: Women in Media
Join National Press Club members Eleanor Clift, Marilyn Geewax, and Michele Salcedo as they participate in a panel “Conversations with women who lead: Women in Media” coordinated with the Mayor’s Office on Women’s Policy and Initiatives at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 28 in the ballroom. Salcedo, the Club’s membership secretary and a desk editor at the Associated Press, will moderate the panel with Geewax, a former member of the Club’s board of governors and a business editor at NPR, and Clift, now a writer at the Daily Beast. Helena Andrews, co-editor of The Reliable Source at the Washington…
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"A Woman's Job" with Noor Tagouri
A premiere event and panel discussion hosted by Newsy and The National Press Club on International Women's Day. “A Woman's Job” is a six-episode Newsy Original Series that profiles the women redefining what it means to build a career in jobs that are traditionally male-dominated. A showing of the series' first two episodes will be followed by a panel discussion with two women featured in the series: Dr. Jen Welter, a football player and coach who, in 2015, became the first woman to coach in the NFL and Patrice Banks, a speaker and the founder of Girls Auto Clinic, an automotive repair shop by…
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NPC New Member Happy Hour
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A Conversation with Frank Sesno about Asking Questions
Questions help us break down barriers, report the news and communicate effectively. But not all of us know how to question in a methodical way. In Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions and Spark Change, Frank Sesno, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and director of George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, shares the value of asking the right kinds of questions and what to expect as an outcome. The National Press Club’s Broadcast/Podcast Committee invites NPC members and guests to hear Sesno answer questions about asking questions by former…
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The Kalb Report - Democracy in Action: The 2016 Presidential Debates
Click here for full video. The Commission on Presidential Debates once again brought the candidates together in 2016 to face tough questions on critical issues while providing a level of substance, dignity and decorum to the presidential campaign. Did it work? On the next edition of The Kalb Report, debate moderators Martha Raddatz and Chris Wallace, as well as Commission co-chairs Frank Fahrenkopf and Mike McCurry join Marvin Kalb to review the remarkable 2016 events that rocked America and the world. The Kalb Report series is produced jointly by The National Press Club Journalism Institute…
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Annual NPC Children Holiday Party
It's time again......to make plans to attend the National Press Club's Annual Children Holiday Party! We will begin at 11 a.m. with a great buffet which will include something for everyone....from Corn Dogs to Hamburgers to French Fries and a little bit of Fruit and Veggies. Once we are filled up -- we can get on the dance floor and move to the music played by DJ Paul and led by our talented Cloggers. Don't forget to stop by and say hello to Santa! There's more -- you have to decide if you want to get your face painted first or decorate a ginger bread cookie to take home -- both are fun!…
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